British Railways Cast Iron Sign Cycling Lion. Free UK shipping. Cast Iron sign featuring the classic British Railways Emblem of a lion astride a spoked railway locomotive wheel. British Railways adopted the common branding of the BTC as its first corporate logo, a lion astride a spoked wheel, this logo was designed by Cecil Thomas; on the bar overlaid across the wheel, the BTC’s name was replaced with the words “British Railways”. This logo, nicknamed the “Cycling Lion”, was applied from 1948 to 1956 to the sides of steam locomotives.

This Cast Iron sign is hand painted in yellow, red and white. The size of the sign is approx 22×29 cm. The sign comes with four holes drilled in the corners, ready for hanging. This is a heavy item, weighing 1.7 KG.

Please note that due to the manufacturing and hand painted nature of this product some slight imperfections will be visible.

This item will be shipped on a Royal Mail Signed For service.

This is one of our Railway Cast Iron signs, to view the range click here.